Sustainability & Tourism

Studiengang

Masterstudiengang Entrepreneurship & Tourismus

Kennzahl der Lehrveranstaltung

TOU-MMT-3-ITO-STO-ILV

Anzahl der zugewiesenen ECTS-Credits

Name des/der Vortragenden

FH-Prof. Dr. Bosio Birgit, Dr. Bottrill Chris

Art der Veranstaltung

face-to-face

empfohlene optionale Programmeinheiten

Derzeit nur in Englisch verfügbar
none

empfohlene Fachliteratur

Derzeit nur in Englisch verfügbar
Reading 1: Bottrill, Kelly and Carnovale: Inconvenient Truths: PATA Compass Magazine, November/December 2012

Reading 2: Bosio, B. and Bottrill, C, (2016) Sustainable Tourism Management - Best Practices in International Tourism. In, Siller, H and Zehrer A, Entrepreneurship und Tourismus: Unternehmerisches Denken und Erfolgskonzepte aus der Praxis. Linde Verlag GmbH

Reading 3: Oxford Economics (2014): Shaping the Future of Travel: Macro Trends Driving Industry Growth over the next Decade. http://www.amadeus.com/documents/Thought-leadership-reports/Amadeus-Shaping-the-Future-of-Travel-MacroTrends-Report.pdf

Reading 4: WTTC Climate Change - Connecting Global Climate Action (executive summary) 2015: https://www.wttc.org/-/media/files/reports/policy%20research/tt%202015%20%20connecting%20global%20climate%20action%20executive%20summary%20a4%208pp%20web.pdf

Reading 5: IATA Sustainable Aviation Fuel Roadmap 2015. http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/environment/Documents/safr-1-2015.pdf

Reading 6: Becken S, Mackey, B (2017) What role for offsetting aviation greenhouse gas emissions in a deep-cut carbon world? Journal of Air Transport Management 63 (p71-83)

Reading 7: Bottrill, C, Carnovale, C (2017) PATA Issues and Trends Volume 22: Community Based Tourism.

Reading 8: Skift (2017). Overtourism issues can no longer be brushed aside as someone else's problem: https://skift.com/2017/08/15/overtourism-issues-can-no-longer-be-brushed-aside-as-someone-elses-problem/?utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=55277923&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9_V5ydAhviQxMAIJyjZhS7Z2U-3QCe_gDYq48QujOS0C5SjKj07Z_b8cp2layVD5ISV4LYpCxKP6RDbR18MVBGPt5Efw&_hsmi=55277923

Reading 9: PATA (2015) Indigenous Tourism and Human Rights in the Asia Pacific: Review, Analysis, Checklists.Additional Reading 1: McCollum, Gould, Greene (2009) Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Aviation and Marine Transportation: Mitigation potential and policies

Additional Reading 2: WTTC Hotel Carbon Measurement Initiative Methodology FINAL

Additional Reading 3: Indigenous Tourism and Human Rights in the Asia Pacific: Review, Analysis, Checklists 2015

Prüfungsmethode

Project work

Niveau der Lehrveranstaltung laut Lehrplan

Master

Studienjahr

Fall 2025

Semester in dem die Lehrveranstaltung angeboten wird

Unterrichtssprache

English

Lernergebnisse der Lehrveranstaltung

Derzeit nur in Englisch verfügbar
By the end of this course, participants will:

• Understand and be able to apply theory and principles of sustainable development and its application to tourism
• Understand and explain major challenges to sustainability in tourism at a global to local level
• Recognize and articulate implications of sustainability challenges in tourism on the rights of individuals in a variety of global contexts
• Know and be able to apply a variety of business and operational techniques, approaches and solutions for sustainability challenges in tourism at a local to global level
• Understand planning and policy implications, approaches, and opportunities for addressing sustainability in tourism at a local to global level
• Understand and explain challenges, dynamics, and approaches toward sustainability in tourism at a community level in various global contexts
• Develop personal consciousness of sustainability challenges and related tourism management solutions

Lehrinhalte

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- History and development of sustainability and sustainable tourism
- Definition and differentiation of terms of sustainability and sustainable tourism
- Players in sustainable tourism (organizations, governments, tourism industry, tourists, etc.)
- Selected market conditions analysis with focus on LOHAS
- Measurability of sustainable tourism (eco labels, CSR, indicator systems, etc.)
- Focussed analysis of climate change and the role and relationship of tourism to this global concern
- Deep and Shallow Ecology and its application to Tourism
- Ecotourism as a form of sustainable tourism – a pre-curser to climate change related policy and processes
- Green management and carbon reduction strategies for enhanced business operation
- Social entrepreneurship in the context of tourism sustainability – social enterprise to social transformation – TaPhin and Lao Chai, Vietnam
- Personal perceptions and actions toward sustainability
- The social context of sustainable development: The case of waterfront development in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Applying concepts of clustering and network development to enhance sustainable tourism outcomes in applied settings: Cases from New Zealand and Canada
- Sustainable fuels and Aviation: Goals, Requirements, Realities
- Sustainability in the context of human rights and indigenous tourism in the Asia Pacific: Goals and responsibilities of stakeholders
- Can tourism be sustainable in the future?

Lehr- und Lernformen

Derzeit nur in Englisch verfügbar
The course comprises an interactive mix of lectures, discussions and individual and group work.

Praktikum

none

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